Srebrenica massacre

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It's 30 years since a massacre of Bosnian Muslims during the war in the former Yugoslavia.

The Srebrenica massacre, recognised by the United Nations as a genocide, was the shocking climax of the war in Bosnia.

In 2014, Louise Hidalgo talked to Hasan Nuhanović whose father, brother and mother were among the 8,000 Bosnians killed.

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(Photo: Graves of those killed in the Srebrenica massacre. Credit: Pierre Crom/Getty Images)

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1:08.2	It's 30 years since a massacre of Bosnian Muslims during the war in the former Yugoslavia.
1:13.3	The Streberonica massacre, recognized by the United Nations as a genocide,
1:17.5	was the shocking climax of the war in Bosnia,
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